“Well, what could it possibly be? You know, it’s not like he tried to hold up a pet store but, you know, the security was just too good at the pet store and they wouldn’t let him in.
She adopts the same humorous tack when asked about the FBI statement that the Texas hostage crisis was “not specifically related” to the Jewish community. When asked what she thought of the revelation, Horn exclaims: “Finally the dream has been achieved! We’ve cracked the case! We figured out how to make the Holocaust the Jews’ fault!” She uses the New Jersey-twanged sarcasm that she deploys with effect in the companion podcast to her book, “Adventures With Dead Jews.” Van Bergh did it to save his own family, and the big news: He was Jewish. (Horn devotes a chapter to Frank in “People Love Dead Jews” as an example of the erasure of Jewishness in the quest for a universal message in the Holocaust.)įollowing a six-year investigation by 20 historians, criminologists and data specialists, it was announced that notary Arnold van den Bergh was “very likely” the man who betrayed the location of the “secret annex” where the Frank family was hiding. Just as the Texas attack was playing out and International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27 neared, the story broke that after years of investigation, researchers believed they had discovered how Anne Frank’s family was betrayed.
From the anti-vaccination movement’s appropriation of Jewish victimhood to the conspiracy-fueled hostage crisis at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, current events have been proving her points. It seems as if the headlines have been in league with her publicity team. From the broadest possible spectrum of Jewish readers – from super religious to secular people from around the world – I hear: ‘I felt uncomfortable my whole life and I never understood why. I was prepared for much more pushback, and there’s been almost none. Speaking to Haaretz from her home in New Jersey, where she lives with her husband and four kids, she says it has been “scary how much people appreciate this book. Her latest book, her first nonfiction work, featured on a raft of best-of-2021 lists and recently won a National Jewish Book award.
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